Oh, You Tex!
OH, YOU TEX!
TEXAS
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE STORY-PRESS CORPORATION COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO SAM F. DUNN OF AMARILLO, TEXAS INSPECTOR OF CATTLE IN THE DAYS OF THE LONGHORN DRIVES TO WHOSE EXPERIENCE AND GENEROUS CRITICISM I AM INDEBTED FOR AID IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS BOOK
OH, YOU TEX!
Day was breaking in the Panhandle. The line-rider finished his breakfast of buffalo-hump, coffee, and biscuits. He had eaten heartily, for it would be long after sunset before he touched food again.
Cheerfully and tunelessly he warbled a cowboy ditty as he packed his supplies and prepared to go.
Oh, it's bacon and beans most every day, I'd as lief be eatin' prairie hay.
While he washed his dishes in the fine sand and rinsed them in the current of the creek he announced jocundly to a young world glad with spring:
I'll sell my outfit soon as I can, Won't punch cattle for no damn' man.
William MacLeod Raine
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CHAPTER I
THE LINE-RIDER
CHAPTER II
"I'LL BE SEVENTEEN, COMING GRASS"
CHAPTER III
TEX TAKES AN INTEREST
CHAPTER IV
TEX GRANDSTANDS
CHAPTER V
CAPTAIN ELLISON HIRES A HAND
CHAPTER VI
CLINT WADLEY'S MESSENGER
CHAPTER VII
THE DANCE
CHAPTER VIII
RUTHERFORD MAKES A MISTAKE
CHAPTER IX
MURDER IN THE CHAPARRAL
CHAPTER X
"A DAMNED POOR APOLOGY FOR A MAN"
CHAPTER XI
ONE TO FOUR
CHAPTER XII
TEX REARRANGES THE SEATING
CHAPTER XIII
"ONLY ONE MOB, AIN'T THERE?"
CHAPTER XIV
JACK SERVES NOTICE
CHAPTER XV
A CLOSE SHAVE
CHAPTER XVI
WADLEY GOES HOME IN A BUCKBOARD
CHAPTER XVII
OLD-TIMERS
CHAPTER XVIII
A SHOT OUT OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XIX
TRAPPED
CHAPTER XX
KIOWAS ON THE WARPATH
CHAPTER XXI
TEX TAKES A LONG WALK
CHAPTER XXII
THE TEST
CHAPTER XXIII
A SHY YOUNG MAN DINES
CHAPTER XXIV
TEX BORROWS A BLACKSNAKE
CHAPTER XXV
"THEY'RE RUNNIN' ME OUTA TOWN"
CHAPTER XXVI
FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
CHAPTER XXVII
CLINT FREES HIS MIND
CHAPTER XXVIII
ON A COLD TRAIL
CHAPTER XXIX
BURNT BRANDS
CHAPTER XXX
ROGUES DISAGREE
CHAPTER XXXI
A PAIR OF DEUCES
CHAPTER XXXII
THE HOLD-UP
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE MAN WITH THE YELLOW STREAK
CHAPTER XXXIV
RAMONA GOES DUCK-HUNTING
CHAPTER XXXV
THE DESERT
CHAPTER XXXVI
HOMER DINSMORE ESCORTS RAMONA
CHAPTER XXXVII
ON A HOT TRAIL
CHAPTER XXXVIII
DINSMORE TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXXIX
A CRY OUT OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XL
GURLEY'S GET-AWAY
CHAPTER XLI
HOMING HEARTS
CHAPTER XLII
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
CHAPTER XLIII
TEX RESIGNS
CHAPTER XLIV
DINSMORE GIVES INFORMATION
CHAPTER XLV
RAMONA DESERTS HER FATHER
CHAPTER XLVI
LOOSE THREADS